People
Individuals I admire.
Alex Kendall
🇬🇧 British
Wayve
Co-founder and CEO of Wayve. Leading the development of embodied AI for autonomous vehicles using end-to-end deep learning.
Currently:
Building Wayve - reimagining autonomous driving with embodied AI and machine learning.
Previously:
Andrej Karpathy
🇸🇰 Slovak-Canadian
Eureka Labs
Former Director of AI at Tesla, founding member of OpenAI. Master educator who makes complex AI concepts accessible. His courses have taught thousands.
Currently:
Building Eureka Labs - AI-native education platform. Creating educational content that scales personalised learning.
Previously:
Demis Hassabis
🇬🇧 British
Google DeepMind
Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind. Chess prodigy, game designer, and neuroscientist. Led the team that created AlphaGo and AlphaFold.
Currently:
Leading DeepMind's mission to solve intelligence. Working on AGI and applying AI to scientific discovery.
Previously:
Fei-Fei Li
🇺🇸 American
Stanford University • Google Cloud AI • World Labs
Pioneer in computer vision and AI. Co-founded ImageNet, which catalysed the deep learning revolution. Advocate for human-centred AI and diversity in tech.
Currently:
Building spatial intelligence at World Labs. Professor at Stanford. Researching visual intelligence and its intersection with language.
Previously:
Palmer Luckey
🇺🇸 American
Anduril Industries
Incredible young founder and tech visionary. VR wizard.
Currently:
Building Anduril Industries - defence technology company focused on autonomous systems and AI. Also building ModRetro.
Previously:
Patrick Collison
🇮🇪 Irish
Stripe
Another Irish founder. Co-founder and CEO of Stripe. Building the economic infrastructure of the internet. Passionate about progress studies and accelerating innovation. Most articulate CEO in the world.
Currently:
Leading Stripe's mission to increase the GDP of the internet. Researching progress and economic growth.
Previously:
Harvey Hodd
🇬🇧 British
Made his money doing boring SAAS and now pursuing his north star -- a deeptech startup.
Currently:
CEO of Rivan creating synthetic fuels to make it cheaper to pull carbon from the air than it is to drill from the ground.
Kevin Kelly
🇺🇸 American
Wired Magazine
Founding editor of Wired, futurist, and author. Really cool guy, love his take on life.
Currently:
Writing about technology, culture, and the future.
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